<adv.all> we went to the movies together the family that prays together stays together
at the same time
<adv.all> we graduated together
with cooperation and interchange
<adv.all> we worked together on the project
with a common plan
<adv.all> act in concert [ adj ]
mentally and emotionally stable
<adj.all> she's really together
Together \To*geth"er\, adv. [OE. togedere, togidere, AS. t[=o]g[ae]dere, t[=o]g[ae]dre, t[=o]gadere; t[=o] to + gador together. [root]29. See {To}, prep., and {Gather}.] 1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town.
Soldiers can never stand idle long together. --Landor.
2. In or into union; into junction; as, to sew, knit, or fasten two things together; to mix things together.
The king joined humanity and policy together. --Bacon.
3. In concert; with mutual co["o]peration; as, the allies made war upon France together.
{Together with}, in union with; in company or mixture with; along with.
Take the bad together with the good. --Dryden.
Put \Put\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Put}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Putting}.] [AS. potian to thrust: cf. Dan. putte to put, to put into, Fries. putje; perh. akin to W. pwtio to butt, poke, thrust; cf. also Gael. put to push, thrust, and E. potter, v. i.] 1. To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; -- nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out).
His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy spiritual employment. --Jer. Taylor.
2. To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.
This present dignity, In which that I have put you. --Chaucer.
I will put enmity between thee and the woman. --Gen. iii. 15.
He put no trust in his servants. --Job iv. 18.
When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts invincible might. --Milton.
In the mean time other measures were put in operation. --Sparks.
3. To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
4. To lay down; to give up; to surrender. [Obs.]
No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends. --Wyclif (John xv. 13).
5. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case.
Let us now put that ye have leave. --Chaucer.
Put the perception and you put the mind. --Berkeley.
These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin. --Milton.
All this is ingeniously and ably put. --Hare.
6. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
These wretches put us upon all mischief. --Swift.
Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense. --Sir W. Scott.
Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge. --Milton.
7. To throw or cast with a pushing motion ``overhand,'' the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.
8. (Mining) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway. --Raymond.
{Put case}, formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be.
Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live. --Bp. Hall.
{To put about} (Naut.), to turn, or change the course of, as a ship.
{To put away}. (a) To renounce; to discard; to expel. (b) To divorce.
{To put back}. (a) To push or thrust backwards; hence, to hinder; to delay. (b) To refuse; to deny.
Coming from thee, I could not put him back. --Shak. (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to an earlier hour. (d) To restore to the original place; to replace.
{To put by}. (a) To turn, set, or thrust, aside. ``Smiling put the question by.'' --Tennyson. (b) To lay aside; to keep; to sore up; as, to put by money.
{To put down}. (a) To lay down; to deposit; to set down. (b) To lower; to diminish; as, to put down prices. (c) To deprive of position or power; to put a stop to; to suppress; to abolish; to confute; as, to put down rebellion or traitors.
Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down. --Shak.
Sugar hath put down the use of honey. --Bacon. (d) To subscribe; as, to put down one's name.
{To put forth}. (a) To thrust out; to extend, as the hand; to cause to come or push out; as, a tree puts forth leaves. (b) To make manifest; to develop; also, to bring into action; to exert; as, to put forth strength. (c) To propose, as a question, a riddle, and the like. (d) To publish, as a book.
{To put forward}. (a) To advance to a position of prominence or responsibility; to promote. (b) To cause to make progress; to aid. (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to a later hour.
{To put in}. (a) To introduce among others; to insert; sometimes, to introduce with difficulty; as, to put in a word while others are discoursing. (b) (Naut.) To conduct into a harbor, as a ship. (c) (Law) To place in due form before a court; to place among the records of a court. --Burrill. (d) (Med.) To restore, as a dislocated part, to its place.
{To put off}. (a) To lay aside; to discard; as, to put off a robe; to put off mortality. ``Put off thy shoes from off thy feet.'' --Ex. iii. 5. (b) To turn aside; to elude; to disappoint; to frustrate; to baffle.
I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue. --Boyle.
We might put him off with this answer. --Bentley. (c) To delay; to defer; to postpone; as, to put off repentance. (d) To get rid of; to dispose of; especially, to pass fraudulently; as, to put off a counterfeit note, or an ingenious theory. (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat.
{To put on} or {To put upon}. (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume. ``Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man.'' --L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] ``This came handsomely to put on the peace.'' --Bacon. (d) To impose; to inflict. ``That which thou puttest on me, will I bear.'' --2 Kings xviii. 14. (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam. (f) To deceive; to trick. ``The stork found he was put upon.'' --L'Estrange. (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as, he put him upon bread and water. ``This caution will put them upon considering.'' --Locke. (h) (Law) To rest upon; to submit to; as, a defendant puts himself on or upon the country. --Burrill.
{To put out}. (a) To eject; as, to put out and intruder. (b) To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout. (c) To extinguish; as, to put out a candle, light, or fire. (d) To place at interest; to loan; as, to put out funds. (e) To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as, he was put out by my reply. [Colloq.] (f) To protrude; to stretch forth; as, to put out the hand. (g) To publish; to make public; as, to put out a pamphlet. (h) To confuse; to disconcert; to interrupt; as, to put one out in reading or speaking. (i) (Law) To open; as, to put out lights, that is, to open or cut windows. --Burrill. (j) (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as, to put out the ankle. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. (l) to engage in sexual intercourse; -- used of women; as, she's got a great bod, but she doesn't put out. [Vulgar slang]
{To put over}. (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer.
For the certain knowledge of that truth I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother. --Shak. (c) To defer; to postpone; as, the court put over the cause to the next term. (d) To transfer (a person or thing) across; as, to put one over the river.
{To put the hand to} or {To put the hand unto}. (a) To take hold of, as of an instrument of labor; as, to put the hand to the plow; hence, to engage in (any task or affair); as, to put one's hand to the work. (b) To take or seize, as in theft. ``He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods.'' --Ex. xxii. 11.
{To put through}, to cause to go through all conditions or stages of a progress; hence, to push to completion; to accomplish; as, he put through a measure of legislation; he put through a railroad enterprise. [U.S.]
{To put to}. (a) To add; to unite; as, to put one sum to another. (b) To refer to; to expose; as, to put the safety of the state to hazard. ``That dares not put it to the touch.'' --Montrose. (c) To attach (something) to; to harness beasts to. --Dickens.
{To put to a stand}, to stop; to arrest by obstacles or difficulties.
{To put to bed}. (a) To undress and place in bed, as a child. (b) To deliver in, or to make ready for, childbirth.
{To put to death}, to kill.
{To put together}, to attach; to aggregate; to unite in one.
{To put this and that} (or {two and two}) {together}, to draw an inference; to form a correct conclusion.
{To put to it}, to distress; to press hard; to perplex; to give difficulty to. ``O gentle lady, do not put me to 't.'' --Shak.
{To put to rights}, to arrange in proper order; to settle or compose rightly.
{To put to the sword}, to kill with the sword; to slay.
{To put to trial}, or {on trial}, to bring to a test; to try.
{To put trust in}, to confide in; to repose confidence in.
{To put up}. (a) To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or resent; to put up with; as, to put up indignities. [Obs.] ``Such national injuries are not to be put up.'' --Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. ``She has been frightened; she has been put up.'' --C. Kingsley. (e) To hoard. ``Himself never put up any of the rent.'' --Spelman. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as, put up that letter. --Shak. (h) To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to; as, he put the lad up to mischief. (i) To raise; to erect; to build; as, to put up a tent, or a house. (j) To lodge; to entertain; as, to put up travelers.
{To put up a job}, to arrange a plot. [Slang]
Syn: To place; set; lay; cause; produce; propose; state.
Usage: {Put}, {Lay}, {Place}, {Set}. These words agree in the idea of fixing the position of some object, and are often used interchangeably. To put is the least definite, denoting merely to move to a place. To place has more particular reference to the precise location, as to put with care in a certain or proper place. To set or to lay may be used when there is special reference to the position of the object.
In addition, union and management have promised to work together to resolve problems arising from layoffs, production schedule changes, major investments and day-to-day decisions once left entirely to management.
"That's not going to make people live their lives together and be responsible to each other," she says.
They all hop into their cars And drive off for a thrill, Gathering on highways Where, together, they stand still.
Yet in Colorado, competing resorts have begun to pool resources to try to resolve their problems together.
Mr. Kehler, a former Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. investment banker, charged his share of big fees to put together takeover deals in the 1980s.
In May I proposed that both houses of Congress, both sides of the aisle, join together with our administration in a bipartisan executive-legislative task force to advance America's unified anti-drug policy.
Temperatures were in the teens while some residents tied sheets and blankets together to slide from their windows down the five-story building's walls.
Mr. Collor has recently suggested that employers and unions join together in a pact to keep wages and prices under control.
As previously reported, Aaron Brothers directors and other stockholders who together hold 64% of the shares outstanding have agreed to tender their shares.
But in the world of economic policy, a lot depends on how simple ideas are fitted together and where the stress is placed.
We lived together for five years," Denson said.
The Club of Rome, best known for its first report warning of the dangers unlimited growth pose to the planet, is bringing together thinkers and world leaders this week to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
BARLO GROUP has received acceptances to its open offer in respect of 25.71m new ordinary shares, which together with 7.56m placed firm by Goodbody Corporate Finance, represents 95.06 per cent of issue.
Asked what will hold all this together, Mr. Kasputys cites three broad principles.
In a joint statement, Rubin and Friedman said they "look forward to continuing on the course that we have set and followed together." Weinberg joined Goldman Sachs in 1950 and became a partner in 1956.
Yet the IFC has been able to put together sound investments in both continents and in the past two years we have made more than 100 investments in projects costing about $5 billion.
The plant will be built and run by Onyx and Esys-Montenay, two companies in Compagnie Generale des Eaux, the French group, together with the council.
Schumer, of Brooklyn, said many House members have been interested in change but haven't banded together before to give each other support.
A "Romeo and Juliet" couple married for 53 years died together in their nursing home room on the same night.
But several OPEC countries, led by Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, are together pumping at least a million barrels a day above the cap, according to analysts.
Syncordia has put together a network that currently links 14 "business centers" or cities, according to Mr. Thames, but plans to link 70 cities within two years.
He calls Ms. Pedler a gifted organizer and the "glue" that has held the affiliate together.
Anti-war and anti-abortion activists are working together in some cases.
"This is such a mish-mash, it can give you indigestion," Ortega told delighted supporters at one rally. "Let (President) Bush eat it." Can UNO hold together and govern through 1996, should it win Sunday's general elections? "Yes.
When one lumps all the split capital shares together, you end up with a conventional investment trust.
"Sometimes hard times bring people together," said Sen. David Pryor, D-Ark., a member of the ethics panel.
A group of Democrats, together with one or two Republicans who voted against the president's plan, have been trying to draw up such an alternative.
The four republics together account for 85% of Soviet gross national product.
When he suggested last month that he, George Harrison and Ringo Starr may come together for a reunion, Harrison responded there wouldn't be one "as long as John Lennon remains dead." McCartney said Thursday he understood.
The seven sheikdoms that stretch from Qatar to Oman along the Persian Gulf previously had been ruled together under an agreement with the B`itish.